{"id":368052,"date":"2010-02-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/26\/report-toyota-whistleblower-documents-trouble-house-panel\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:00:00","slug":"report-toyota-whistleblower-documents-trouble-house-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368052","title":{"rendered":"Report: Toyota ‘whistleblower’ documents trouble House panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Government\/Legal<\/a>, Recalls<\/a>, Safety<\/a>, Toyota<\/a><\/p>\n

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And the saga continues. According to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Ed Towns (D-N.Y.), documents obtained by the committee under subpoena from Dimitrios Biller<\/a> – managing counsel in the product liability group of Toyota<\/a> Motor Sales USA from April 2003 to September 2007 – “indicate Toyota deliberately withheld records that it was legally required to produce in response to discovery orders in litigation.”<\/p>\n

Towns further says that many such documents “concern ‘rollover’ cases in which a driver or passenger was injured, including cases where victims were paralyzed.” In a letter sent to Yoshimi Inaba, president of Toyota’s operations in North America, Towns wrote:<\/p>\n

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In sum, the Biller documents indicate a systematic disregard for the law and routine violation of court discovery orders in litigation. People injured in crashes involving Toyota vehicles may have been injured a second time when Toyota failed to produce relevant evidence in court… Moreover, this also raises very serious questions as to whether Toyota has also withheld substantial, relevant information from NHTSA.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It has also come out that Toyota keeps so-called “Books of Knowledge” containing information from Toyota engineers on internal design and testing data. So closely held was this information that the automaker supposedly agreed to multimillion-dollar civic settlements to safeguard the data. Serious charges indeed, and Towns has given Toyota until Friday, March 12th, to respond.<\/p>\n

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[Source: The Detroit News<\/a> | Image: Kazuhiro Nogi\/AFP\/Getty]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Government\/Legal, Recalls, Safety, Toyota And the saga continues. According to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Ed Towns (D-N.Y.), documents obtained by the committee under subpoena from Dimitrios Biller – managing counsel in the product liability group of Toyota Motor Sales USA from April 2003 to September 2007 – “indicate Toyota deliberately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}